3 What The Public Wants - Gianni Longo

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What the Public WantsPeople, Pixels, and Plans

ACP Visioning + Planning CNU 17 – Denver 2009

Preamble to the Charter

“We are committed to reestablishing the relationship between the art of building and the making of community, through citizen-based participatory planning and design.”

Preamble to the Charter

“We are committed to reestablishing the relationship between the art of building and the making of community, through citizen-based participatory planning and design.”

Two Questions

How do we understand what the public wants?

How do we facilitate the integration of the intuitive and informed in the making of a comprehensive plan?

People: the Value Game

Whose values?

Some people nervous, still…

Pixels: Seeing to Understand the World

These tools are very seductive. They…

• Help us understand place• Illustrate choices• Help us make decisions

What we need is a framework to use them

The Public Process

Generative Analytical Deliberative

Generating Ideas

Linking Ideas to Place

Linking Ideas and Place on the Website Courtesy: Environmental Simulation Center

Outcome: Values that represent what the public

genuinely want

Analytical: Understanding The Visual Implication of Ideas

Analytical – Measuring the Impact of Ideas Courtesy: Environmental Simulation Center

Evaluating scenarios

Courtesy: Environmental Simulation Center

Outcome: A Vision that articulates how the community

can address those values

Deliberative: Use of Key-pad Technology

Columbus 2012

To Shorten the Feedback Loop

Outcome: Policies that determine how the vision can

be implemented

Three Desired Outcomes

Values: Represent what the public genuinely want

Vision: Articulates how the community can address those values

Policies: Determine how the vision can be implemented

What Are the Benefits?

The integration of public involvement and information technology facilitates the making of a plan in many ways. It

• Places information at the public’s fingertips• Anticipates the future• Enables informed decisions• Gives us permission to act

For more information glongo@ACP-planning.com

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